Wednesday, 1 March 2017

Needlebook Exchange reveal

Each time the ladies from Needlecraft Haven meet for the day an exchange is organised just for those in attendance. Something to stitch and make to remind you of the lovely day we had and pass on the love and friendship to a fellow forum member.

When we met last autumn, we all filled in a card stating a colour, a flower, a chocolate and a season that you liked.

A card was then picked by each of us. This exchange is totally anonymous so everyone gets a surprise stitcher, there is no organiser like in a usual exchange. You are reliant on everyone keeping to the rules of exchanges and making sure their parcel arrives in plenty of time for opening day. For this one we did have a receiving day and then opening day was a week later (this was to allow for postal delays or any other problem), so hopefully there would be no disappointments on todays opening day and we all opened our parcel on the same day.

I opened my parcel this morning, all wrapped in lovely pink tissue paper ......

My parcel was from Angi (no blog) - Angi was one of the first ladies I met online when I was first introduced to online stitchers, forums and blogs etc .... that must be about 14 years ago now!

The theme for this exchange was set as name or initial -

The front .....

the back ......

and the inside, with a lovely packet of needles ....

The whole parcel including the chocolate treat and little notecard....

Thank you Angi, it's beautiful and something I will treasure.

I chose to stitch a Just Nan design called Ornamental Letters and used red felt as the main body of the needlebook. Lynn's was the card I chose and she had expressed a preference for red, roses, dark chocolate and her seasonal choice was Spring.

I attached the design to the front piece of felt and some ribbon roses, then blanket stitched around the edges of the front and back piece to hold them together. A piece of wadding was added to the inside with a careful backstitch. A press stud fastener attached and a little heart pin together with a packet of needles finished it off.

The inside ....

and the chocolate I chose to add .....

I hope you liked it Lynn!

What would your choices have been if you had been taking part in this exchange?

Oh what a fun exchange! The one you did is beautiful and the one you received is just wonderful too. Let's see I would have answered. Purple. Any flowers but I love snap dragons. Season would be Spring.

Such lovely exchange pieces Julie, love the colours you chose Angi to do.Such a nice idea. I think I would like spring and yellow for daffodils and blue for forgetmenots.However no to the chocolate, perhaps a bunch of asparagus as they look like bluebells before they flower lol.

Oh wow, both of you received great exchanges! Lovely L and sweet J.I would have chosen periwinkle for the colour, daffodil for the flower, fall for the season, and orange chocolate! Not sure how all that would go together though!